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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PXE boot.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:25:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioi89a8d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMwaQALLHkVwTDx_Yagd6iOWHRykASaimuuxLP9Fr90_Y3rO9A@mail.gmail.com> (Omar Radwan's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:02:47 -0800")

Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com> skribis:

> I want to try out Guix 0.8 on one of my devices. The problem is that it's
> very old and doesn't support booting from USB's. So I was wondering if I
> could PXE boot. Is that possible with Guix?

I don’t think so.

> Or is there any other way?

If that device already runs GNU/Linux, you could install Guix on top of
it, as per
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Installation.html>.

Then, if you want to boot the complete system, you can even run
something like:

  guix system init my-config.scm /

This will have the same effect as the installation from USB, except that
the existing root file system will not be completely wiped.  See
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-system.html>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-21  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21  3:02 PXE boot Omar Radwan
2014-11-21  9:25 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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